At the close of a long, hot summer, it is refreshing to escape into a cool theater and savor Sierra Repertory Theatre’s clever, imaginative and funny production, “Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” set in the misty moors of England. SRT co-founder Dennis Jones has returned to direct and design this production. He has created an atmospheric set enveloped in fog, with dogs baying and ominous howling winds. Modular sets representing trains, railroad stations and a gloomy mansion with moving walls add to the fun. Read full article in uniondemocrat.com/lifestyle…. Read More

This Summer, Daniel returns to “THE 39 STEPS” as Richard Hannay at Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre: A Lyceum Premiere! Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have the thrilling, and riotously funny whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre. This 2-time Tony® and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance! A man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she’s a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called “The 39 Steps” is hot on the man’s trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, The 39 Steps amounts to an unforgettable evening of pure theatrical pleasure! MYSTERY RATED PG http://lyceumtheatre.org/occasion/the-39-steps/ Read More

This Fall, Daniel will play Dr. Watson in KEN LUDWIG’S “BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY” at Sierra Repertory Theatre: The Hound of the Baskervilles has never been funnier! Male heirs of Baskerville are being offed one by one so Sherlock and Watson must brave desolate moors before a family curse dooms its newest heir. Get caught up in a dizzying web of clues, silly accents, disguises, and deceit as five actors deftly portray more than forty characters. (Rated PG) August 31-September 30, 2018 ​Fallon House Theatre http://www.sierrarep.org/ken-ludwigs-baskerville-a-sherlock-holmes-mystery.html Read More

www.visitationexperience.com/about THE VISITATION a new immersive theater experience RETURNING FOR TWO WEEKENDS ONLY Thursday March 8, 2018 – Saturday, March 17, 2018 THE WYCKOFF HOUSE 5816 Clarendon Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11203 Read More

The Old Globe’s 2017-2018 Season continues with today’s announcement of the complete cast and creative team of a top-notch revival of Oscar Wilde’s endlessly entertaining comedy The Importance of Being Earnest. Maria Aitken will direct the Globe’s handsome production of this timeless world classic-an unmissable opportunity to see what the London Telegraph calls “the most perfect comedy in the English language.” The Importance of Being Earnest will run January 27 – March 4, 2018 on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Tickets start at $30.00 and are on sale now to the general public. Previews run January 27-31. Opening night is Thursday, February 1 at 8:00 p.m. Oscar Wilde’s wildly entertaining comedy sparkles with dazzling wordplay and hilariously unlikely situations. This “trivial comedy for serious people” features two carefree bachelors, Jack and Algernon, each with a carefully hidden double life. But when Algernon discovers that Jack has been posing as a man named Ernest to escape to the city, he promptly travels to Jack’s country estate to pose as the fictional figure himself! Silliness ensues with whimsical ingénues, jealous fiancées, indomitable dowagers, and the most famous handbag […] Read More

IACD AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Anna Deavere Smith is the founder and director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue. The mission of the IACD is to support artists whose works address social justice and related themes. The IACD supports arts education, and creates a meeting place for artists, scholars, and audiences to exchange ideas and generate new work. To attend ourHidden Hate / Hidden Love event on Monday, December 18th, please rsvp: rsvp@sparkplug-pr.com To join our event mailing list, or to learn about other ways to get involved, drop us a line: iacd@nyu.edu More about the IACD: Originally launched in 1997 at Harvard University as a series of summer symposiums, the IACD was among early experimental environments interested in the arts and civic engagement. During these summer convenings, the Institute produced artistic works from a variety of disciplines, each of them exploring a social issue. A percentage of the audience was “curated,” to discover whether the presence of an audience with an appetite for discussion of content (rather than form), might influence further development of the work. In 2001, the IACD relocated to New York, and it is currently housed at New York University, where it is active year-round, funded by a generous grant from the Provost’s office. More […] Read More

A new immersive theatre company debuts in Brooklyn It’s 1682; the “witch hunter” has come to town to investigate yet another suspicious incident. Will he find witchcraft or some other form of evil? The young girl in question is one, poor Anne Gunter. And she has been afflicted with something terrible: eyes rolling into the back of her head, flailing limbs, babbling verse, and even spitting out pins, to her father Brian’s astonishment. Her family are concerned and have called in two specialists; however, the two priests on the scene are more inclined to use patience and prayer as their primary weapons. Both Father Wake (an authoritative, wise-sounding Daniel Harray) and Father Prideaux (an eager, unsettling Brian Lore Evans) have traveled great distances to the Gunter family home in order to complete their investigation. But we’re not in just any old family home: we are in the storied Wyckoff House, which is the oldest house in New York City. It has been lovingly restored in the colonial style and now functions as a museum, except for tonight, when it has been transformed into the set for The Visitation. This very old, worn house is mostly dark on this brisk November evening, save […] Read More

The Visitation, an immersive play about historical witchcraft, Opens Off-Broadway on November 3. The new show transports the audience to 1682 in the Wyckoff House, the oldest building in NYC. For three nights only, audiences are invited to the Wyckoff House for a new immersive theatrical experience that places them at the center of a witchcraft inquest. The Visitation transports the audience to 17th-century New York. A young girl has fallen ill. The cause, she claims, is witchcraft. As a foreboding winter rolls in, two priests are dispatched to her family’s rural home, tasked with investigating the claims. As the evening progresses, the inhabitants of the house begin to uncover dark secrets – about one another and themselves. Based on a true historical witchcraft case, this lantern-lit promenade immersive theater piece is written by Michael Bontatibus and directed by Drew Gregory. The cast features Brian L. Evans, Ben Gougeon, Rae Haas, Daniel Harray (Orange is the New Black), and Virginia Logan (Sleep No More). Audience members will be free to follow characters throughout the rooms and grounds of the Wyckoff House, which dates from 1638 and is the oldest structure in New York City. Playing to only 40 audience members a night, the close-quarters, […] Read More

“People like us, who believe in physics,” Albert Einstein once said, “know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Einstein meant it as consolation — he was speaking at the funeral of a friend — but alas, for André (Ted van Griethuysen) the distinction has melted and he is in terror. A man of great dignity and self-possession, Andrei finds himself facing some disconcerting uncertainties. Is he in his apartment, or his daughter Anne’s (Kate Eastwood Norris, or, sometimes, Erika Rose)? And who is that man (Daniel Harray or, sometimes, Manny Buckey) in the apartment with them? Why doesn’t his other daughter, Elise, come to visit them any more? And where is his damn watch? Ted van Griethuysen and Kate Eastwood Norris in Studio Theatre’s The Father. (Photo: Teresa Wood) The Father comes to us as a comedy might: André, having terrorized his nurse into resigning, now must confront his daughter, who has a terrible dilemma. It is this: she is moving from Paris to London to be with her lover, and must find a solution for her father, who is slipping into dementia. She cannot look after him, and if she can’t […] Read More